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Action & Adventure

 

Exotic Locales

 

Raymond Benson The fourth author to continue Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Several James Bond short stories have been published in Playboy and TV Guide magazines as well.
Clive CusslerHis popular character, Dirk Pitt , deep sea expert and adventurer, was introduced in 1973 with Pacific Vortex and is still going strong. His 11th novel, Sahara, was made into a motion picture
Dorothy DunnettRenaissance courts of Europe and USSR
Ian FlemingCreator of James Bond, British agent 007 for Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Series started in 1953 with Casino Royale. Numerous films made from his novels. Kinsgley Amis continued the James Bond series with only one book to his credit, Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham. Stories were continued by John Gardner
John GardnerContinued with Ian Fleming’s James Bond series in 1981 with License Renewed and continued until 1996 when Raymond Benson took over
Stephen HunterSeries with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee, and Charles
Hammond Innes A man, seeking the past, battling the forces of nature in some remote region of the world best describes Hammond Innes’ novels
Robert Lewis TaylorWesterns (Pulitzer Prize for Travels of Janie McPheeters)

 

Military Adventures

 

Stephen CoontsWrites thrillers involving Adm. Jack Grafton
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe series set in the Napoleonic war and the Starbuck chronicles set during the U.S. Civil War
C.S. ForesterWrote the famous Horatio Hornblower series made into a television series by A & E.
Robert GandtFocuses on naval aviation and is very accurate due to the fact that he is an ex-Navy fighter pilot.
W.E.B. GriffinA very current popular author with 5 series of different branches of the military
Jack HigginsPen name for British novelist Harry Patterson and has written numerous thrillers with his most popular being The Eagle Has Landed
Alexander Kentsee Douglas Reeman (listed below)
Alistair MacLeanGuns of Navarrone, classic order author written in the 1970’s
Richard MarcinkoSoldier of fortune type novels
Philip McCutchanSeries include Halfhyde, Chatto, Cmeron, Kemp, Ogilvie
Patrick O’BrianSeries of historical seafaring novels of Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon starting during the Napoleonic wars. The first in the series, Master and Commander has been made into a film starring Russell Crowe.
Douglas Reeman aka Alexander KentDouglas Reeman concentrates on sea novels, i.e. the Blackwood Saga. Alexander Kent, on a series with midshipman Richard Bolitho set in the 1770’s-1817.
Richard WoodmanEnglish author of nautical historical fiction. Has several series, his longest being The Nathaniel Drinkwater series

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